Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.