Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.