Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

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.

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

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.