O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

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

No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.