True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

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.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

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