Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.