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.

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

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.