The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

No craving void left aching in the soul.

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.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.