The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.

It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.

Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.

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

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.