It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.