It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.

On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.