Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.