All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid.

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.