Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

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

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.