Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.