The plainest case in many words entangling.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.