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

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

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

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.