"Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today."

"Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms."

"If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes."

"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune."

"'Tis folly to be wise."

"He gave to misery (all he had) a tear."

"Visions of glory, spare my aching sight."

"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."

"Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations."

"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

"Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise."