True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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.
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
False happiness is like false money it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch we find the lightness and alloy and feel t...
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
No place so scared from such frops is barred Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard
Light quirks of music broken and uneven Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy...
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.