What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.