The still small voice of gratitude.

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.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

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

Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body.

Ah, tell them they are men!