Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.