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.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.