The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.