The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
Order is heaven's first law.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.