Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.
Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!
Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr’d.
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
For love is heaven and heaven is love.
Never was flattery lost on a poet’s ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.
I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice.
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.