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!
And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.
All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.