When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.