Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

True self-love and social are the same.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.