Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

A lie is an excuse guarded