Each Age Has Deemed The New-born Year

What Skilful Limner E'er Would Choose To Paint The Rainbow's Varying Hues, Unless To Mortal It Were Given To Dip His Brush In Dyes Of Heaven?

In Man's Most Dark Extremity Oft Succour Dawns From Heaven.

Necessity--thou Best Of Peacemakers, As Well As Surest Prompter Of Invention.

For Monarchs Seldom Sigh In Vain.

The Lover's Pleasure, Like That Of The Hunter, Is In The Chase, And The Brightest Beauty Loses Half Its Merit, As The Flower Its Perfume, When The Willing Hand Can Reach It Too Easily. There Must Be Doubt; There Must Be Difficulty And Danger.