He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury; that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifferency hears the rolling thunders grumble and burst under his feet.

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

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

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.