False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.