The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.