When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.

A noisy man is always in the right.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.