What is one man's gain is another's loss.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.