Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.