Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.