"So manifold, all pleasing in their kind, All healthful, are the employs of rural life, Reiterated as the wheel of time, Runs round; still ending, and beginning still."

"Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in."

"Which not even critics criticise."

"O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!"

"I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness,"

"The slope of faces from the floor to th' roof, (As if one master-spring controlled them all), Relaxed into a universal grin."

"With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves."

"All learned, and all drunk!"

"Gloriously drunk, obey the important call."

"The Frenchman's darling."

"Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill."

"Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue."

"Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not."

"Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free! They touch our country, and their shackles fall."

"Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops, been mingled into one."

"Fast-anchor'd isle."

"O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms?"

"Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature."

"United yet divided, twain at once: So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne."

"The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged."

"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour."

"Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade."

"But many a crime deem'd innocent on earth Is register'd in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, But God will never."

"A cheap but wholesome salad from the brook."

"I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live."

"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."

"Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells."

"Some to the fascination of a name Surrender judgment hoodwink'd."

"Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books."

"There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk, or grave: Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet!"

"Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own."

"Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God."

"I sing the Sofa. I, who lately sang Truth, Hope, and Charity, and touch'd with awe The solemn chords, and with a trembling hand, Escap'd with pain from that advent'rous flight, Now seek repose upon an humbler theme."

"Thus first necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplished Sofa last."

"The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, Whom snoring she disturbs."

"God made the country, and man made the town."

"Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more."

"I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd."

"We have no slaves at home. ─ Then why abroad?"

"England, with all thy faults, I love thee still— My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee."

"Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause."

"There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know."

"Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts."

"His head, Not yet by time completely silvered o'er, Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, But strong for service still, and unimpaired."

"Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that has survived the fall!"

"Dream after dream ensues; And still they dream that they shall still succeed; And still are disappointed."

"Charge His mind with meanings that he never had."

"Newton, childlike sage! Sagacious reader of the works of God."

"With filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all!"