What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?

The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

A fav'rite has no friend!

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.