A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: - feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

A power is passing from the earth.

His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.