Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

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

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.