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

The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

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.

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.