The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

Gratitude is heaven itself.

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.

I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

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.

O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.