I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

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.

Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.