Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.