We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

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

Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.