Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.