Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

God made the country, and man made the town.

The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs