Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

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.

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.