Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

In every picture there should be shade as well as light.

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge of an art or science, of which they understood nothing till their brief was delivered, and appear to be much masters of it.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?