Never find fault with the absent.

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.