Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.