The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

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.

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.