Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.