Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
There is a majesty in simplicity.
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.