In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.