There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood..

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter..

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish..

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake..

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy..

When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The ba….

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving..

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him..

She who means no mischief does it all..

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium..

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them..

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer..

Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fat….

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors..

Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied….

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme..

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade..

Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel..

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes..

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth..

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by..