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

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.