A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

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.

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.