Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

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

It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.