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

Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.