See in what peace a Christian can die.

It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

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

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

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.