Genius involves both envy and calumny.
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.