Look back, and smile on perils past.

It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.

But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.

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

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

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.