Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise..

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary..

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day..

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into v….

I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the….

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a pe….

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by..

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales..

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile..

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally ….

No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare….

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealt….

What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of the honestest man in the nation: What more of….

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student..

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie..

The sports of children satisfy the child..

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form..

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure..

There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to p….

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts..

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down..