All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

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!

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

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

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all