"That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,-- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course."

On a Tear.

"Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay."

To ----.

"To vanish in the chinks that Time has made."

Pæstum.

"Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it."

Epigram.

"The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold."

Illustrations of Sterne. Bibliomania. Line 6.

"Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold."

Illustrations of Sterne. Bibliomania. Line 65.

"Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed Of knightly counsel and heroic deed)."

Illustrations of Sterne. Bibliomania. Line 121.

"How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold!"

Illustrations of Sterne. Bibliomania. Line 137.

"His [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid all Nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art."

Apology for the Freedom of the Press.

"He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move."

Gregory's Life of Hall.

"Call things by their right names. . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."

Gregory's Life of Hall.

"What will Mrs. Grundy say?"

Speed the Plough. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Push on,--keep moving."

A Cure for the Heartache. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed."

A Cure for the Heartache. Act v. Sc. 2.

"Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself."

Vindiciæ Gallicæ.

"The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity."

Vindiciæ Gallicæ.

"The frivolous work of polished idleness."

Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy. Remarks on Thomas Brown.

"There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal."

The Land o' the Leal.

"Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'."

Gude Nicht, etc.

"Oh, we 're a' noddin', nid, nid, noddin'; Oh, we 're a' noddin' at our house at hame."

We 're a' Noddin'.

"A penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree."

The Laird o' Cockpen.

"Our Federal Union: it must be preserved."

Toast given on the Jefferson Birthday Celebration in 1830.

"You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see."

Life of Jackson (Parton). Vol. iii. p. 493.

"Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!"

Speech at Plymouth, Dec. 22, 1802.

"In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do."

Letter to A. Bronson. July 30, 1838.

"This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade."

Written in an Album, 1842.

"This is the last of earth! I am content."

His Last Words, Feb. 21, 1848.

"You 'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow."

Lines written for a School Declamation.

"It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 15.

"That knuckle-end of England,--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 17.

"No one minds what Jeffrey says: . . . it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 17.

"We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 23.

"Truth is its [justice's] handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the Gospel; it is the attribute of God."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 29.

"It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 53.

"Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,--nothing so expensive as glory."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 88.

"Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 130.

"Looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 157.

"The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 244.

"Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 258.

"He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 259.

"You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 261.

"Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 262.

"My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 262.

"As the French say, there are three sexes,--men, women, and clergymen."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 262.

"To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 265.

"Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 267.

""Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.""

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 267.

"Macaulay is like a book in breeches. . . . He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 363.

"Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day."

Recipe for Salad. P. 374.

"Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea?--how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea."

Recipe for Salad. P. 383.