The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

Beauty draws us with a single hair.

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

The enormous faith of many made for one.