Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

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.

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.