So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more..

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance..

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack..

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home..

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well..

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish..

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer w….

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain..

They say women and music should never be dated..

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation..

Wealth accumulates, and men decay..

Where wealth accumulates, men decay..

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law..

I always get the better when I argue alone..

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us..

Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving….

[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of ….

All the bloomy flush of life is fled..

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination..

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them..

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly..