I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.