There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

For Love will still be lord of all.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

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.

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.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.