Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

A mother's pride, a father's joy.

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

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

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.