"The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death."

Review of Seybert's Annals of the United States, 1820.

"In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?"

Review of Seybert's Annals of the United States, 1820.

"Magnificent spectacle of human happiness."

America. Edinburgh Review, July, 1824.

"In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm [at Sidmouth], Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused; Mrs. Partington's spirit was up. But I need not tell you that the contest was unequal; the Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington."

Speech at Taunton, 1813.

"Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light."

On American Debts.

"And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation."

The Monks and the Giants. Canto i. Line 6.

"A sudden thought strikes me,--let us swear an eternal friendship."

The Rovers. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."

Despatch, 1815.

"It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men."

Mem. by the Duke, Sept. 18, 1836.

"I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life."

Upon seeing the first Reformed Parliament.

"There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake."

Letter to Mr. Huskisson.

"The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 't were gross flattery to name a coward."

The Honeymoon. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,-- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in."

The Honeymoon. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir."

The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.

"I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first."

The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.

"So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES."

The Loves of the Triangles. Line 178.

"And finds, with keen, discriminating sight, Black 's not so black,--nor white so very white."

New Morality.

"Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet,--perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!"

New Morality.

"I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old."

The King's Message, Dec. 12, 1826.

"No, here 's to the pilot that weathered the storm!"

The Pilot that weathered the Storm.

"Too late I stayed,--forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers."

Lines to Lady A. Hamilton.

"Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, And when the storm of war was gone, Enjoyed the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!"

Hail, Columbia!

"Oh, be wiser thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love."

Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree.

"And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food."

Guilt and Sorrow. Stanza 41.

"Action is transitory,--a step, a blow; The motion of a muscle, this way or that."

The Borderers. Act iii.

"Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way."

The Borderers. Act iv. Sc. 2.

"A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death?"

We are Seven.

"O Reader! Had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything."

Simon Lee.

"I 've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning."

Simon Lee.

"In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind."

Lines written in Early Spring.

"And 't is my faith, that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes."

Lines written in Early Spring.

"Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness."

Expostulation and Reply.

"Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?"

The Tables Turned.

"Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher."

The Tables Turned.

"One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can."

The Tables Turned.

"The bane of all that dread the Devil."

The Idiot Boy.

"Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart."

Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

"That best portion of a good man's life,-- His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love."

Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

"That blessed mood, In which the burden of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened."

Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

"The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart."

Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

"The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite,--a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thoughts supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye."

Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

"But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity."

Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

"A sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,-- A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things."

Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

"Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her."

Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

"Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life."

Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

"Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel No self-reproach."

The Old Cumberland Beggar.

"As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!"

The Old Cumberland Beggar.

"There 's something in a flying horse, There 's something in a huge balloon."

Peter Bell. Prologue. Stanza 1.

"The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,--her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears."

Peter Bell. Prologue. Stanza 27.

"Full twenty times was Peter feared, For once that Peter was respected."

Peter Bell. Part i. Stanza 3.