Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye’s bright grace.
High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!
In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.
Necessity – thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.
A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.
Look not thou on beauty’s charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when the people listens.
It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
Sensibility is nature’s celestial spring.
The lover’s pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.
Every hour has its end.
If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.