Never mind the use--do it!

So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.