I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.