In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar’s frock, and all shall be well again.
The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours – ambition is the serious business of life.
The rose is fairest when ’t is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash’d with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm’d in tears.
Art thou a friend to Roderick?
Profan’d the God-given strength, and marr’d the lofty line.
He turn’d his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, “Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore.”
For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.
For Love will still be lord of all.
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.
The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.
That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o’er, Till Memory lends her light no more.
But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that’s broken!
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.