Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

Colors speak all languages.

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 first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.