Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.
My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.
See in what peace a Christian can die.
The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.