While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.