The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.