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.

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.