Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.