Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

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

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

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.

No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.