Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.