A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

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.

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.