God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.