Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.