Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

To you your father should be as a god.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.

Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry