He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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 sports of children satisfy the child.
An Englishman fears contempt more than death.
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.