In indolent vacuity of thought.

How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.

The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.