Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

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.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.

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

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.