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.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

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

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.