Art thou a friend to Roderick?

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

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!

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