It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.