Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
A noisy man is always in the right.
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.