"I knew, by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd Above the green elms, that a cottage was near; And I said, "If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here.""

"The tribute most high to a head that is royal, Is love from a heart that loves liberty too."

"Eyes of unholy blue."

"But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream."

"'Tis the last rose of Summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone."

"Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore."

"Believe me, if all those endearing young charms Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow and fleet in my arms, Like fairy gifts fading away. Thou wouldst still be adored as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart, Would entwine itself verdantly still."

"When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?"

"No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close, As the sun-flower turns on her god when he sets The same look which she turn'd when he rose."

"Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid."

"And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls."

"Go where glory waits thee, But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me!"

"The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more."

"And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!"

"The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them."

"Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah has triumphed—his people are free."

"Oh, call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold."

"The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you'll find him; His father's sword he has girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him."

"All that's bright must fade,— The brightest and the fleetest; All that's sweet was made, But to be lost when sweetest."

"Come, come," said Tom's father, "at your time of life, There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake-- It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife." "Why, so it is father--whose wife shall I take?"

"Life is a waste of wearisome hours Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns."

"Self is the medium thro' which Judgment's ray Can seldom pass without being turned astray."

"Patience lingers o'er the weedy shore, And, mutely waiting till the storm be o'er, Turns to young Hope, who still directs his eye To some blue spot, just breaking in the sky!"

"Just as the mind the erring sense believes, The erring mind, in turn, the sense deceives."

"Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time."

"Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past."

"A Persian's heaven is easily made: 'Tis but black eyes and lemonade."

"Oft, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken!"

"I feel like one, Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed!"

"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."

"No man cares to have his virtues the sport of contingencies—or one man may be generous, as another is puissant;—sed non quoad hanc—or be it as it may,—for there is no regular reasoning upon the ebbs and flows of our humours; they may depend upon the same causes, for aught I know, which influence the tides themselves: ’twould oft be no discredit to us, to suppose it was so: I’m sure at least for myself, that in many a case I should be more highly satisfied, to have it said by the world, “I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame,” than have it pass altogether as my own act and deed, wherein there was so much of both."

"When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain."

"I was at peace with the world before, and this finish’d the treaty with myself."

"L—d! said my mother, what is all this story about? — A Cock and a Bull, said Yorick — And one of the best of its kind I ever heard."

"They order, said I, this matter better in France."

"When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains."

"When issues of events like these my father is waiting for, are hanging in the scales of fate, the mind has the advantage of changing the principle of expectation three times, without which it would not have power to see it out.Curiosity governs the first moment; and the second moment is all economy to justify the expense of the first — and for the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth moments, and so on to the day of judgment — 'tis a point of HONOUR.I need not be told, that the ethic writers have assigned this all to Patience; but that VIRTUE, methinks, has extent of domination sufficient of her own, and enough to do in it, without invading the few dismantled castles which HONOUR has left him upon the earth."

"I am sick as a horse."

"Ho! 'tis the time of salads."

"A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad."

"I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it."