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

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

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

One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.