Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.

Grief is itself a medicine.

But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.