The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.