An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.