The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.