Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

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.

He that runs may read.

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.

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Lights of the world, and stars of human race.