To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.