Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

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

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.