One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.