Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!