To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

Passions are the gales of life.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.