The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

And plenty makes us poor.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.