"God bless the King! (I mean our faith's defender!) God bless! (No harm in blessing) the Pretender. But who Pretender is, and who is King, God bless us all! That's quite another thing!"

"Here, all ye learned, full of all Dispute, Of true and false Religion lies the Root. The Mind of Christ, when He became a Man, With all Its Tempers, forms its real Plan, The Sheep from Goats distinguishing full well; — His Love is Heav'n, and Want of It is Hell."

"The Sabbath was made for Man; not Man for the Sabbath."

"Of true Religion Works of Mercy seem To be the plainest Proof in Christ's Esteem; Who has Himself declar'd what He will say To all the Nations at the Judgment Day: "Come," or "Depart," is the predicted Lot Of brotherly Compassion shown, or not."

"Religion's Meaning when I would recall, Love is to me the plainest Word of all. Plainest, — because that what I love, or hate, Shews me directly my internal State; By its own Consciousness is best defin'd Which way the Heart within me stands inclin'd. On what it lets its Inclination rest, To that its real Worship is address'd; Whatever Forms or Ceremonies spring From Custom's Force, there lies the real Thing; Jew, Turk or Christian be the Lover's Name, If same the Love, Religion is the same."

"Were I a king (God bless me) I should hate My chaplains meddling with affairs of state; Nor would my subjects, I should think, be fond, Whenever theirs the Bible went beyond."

"In reading authors, when you find Bright passages that strike your mind, And which perhaps you may have reason To think on at another season, Be not contented with the sight, But take them down in black and white; Such a respect is wisely shown That makes another's sense one's own."

"Th' Eternal Mind, ev'n Heathens understood, Was Infinitely Powerful, Wise, and Good. In their Conceptions, who conceiv'd aright, These Three Essential Attributes unite. They saw that, wanting any of the Three, Such an All-perfect Being could not be."

"Thus adorned, the two heroes, 'twixt shoulder and elbow, Shook hands and went to 't; and the word it was bilbow."

"As clear as a whistle."

"The point is plain as a pike-staff."

"From the Divine, Eternal Spirit springs Order and Rule and Rectitude of Things, Thro' outward Nature, His Apparent Throne, Visibly seen, intelligibly known, — Proofs of a Boundless Pow'r, a Wisdom's Aid, By Goodness us'd, Eternal and Unmade."

"Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it."

"Sir, you must be all caution and no fear, and you'll find true what our old friend Archimedes said some while ago."

"Some say, that Signor Bononcini, Compared to Handel's a mere ninny; Others aver, to him, that Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange! that such high dispute should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee."

"Endless Perfections after all conspire, And to adore excite and to admire; But to plain Minds the Plainest Pow'r Above Is Native Goodness to attract our Love; Centre of all Its various Pow'r and Skill Is One Divine, Immutable Good Will."

"Christians, awake! salute the happy morn, Whereon the Saviour of mankind was born."

"Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places."

"Who knows nothing base Fears nothing known."

"That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own."

"Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid."

"But, however we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time."

"Unseen hands delay The coming of what seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then."

"Life is good; but not life in itself."

"That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine."

"No star ever rose And set, without influence somewhere."

"O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility."

"No life Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife And all life not be purer and stronger thereby."

"Life hath set No landmarks before us."

"Thought alone is eternal."

"'Tis more brave To live, than to die."

"There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish."

"I loved you ere I knew you: know you now, And, having known you, love you better still."

"To all facts there are laws. The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause."

"We are our own fates. Our deeds Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made not for men's creeds, But men's actions."

"As pure as a pearl, And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl."

"No true love can be without Its dread penalty—jealousy."

"Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them."

"Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!"

"You know There are moments when silence, prolong'd and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken."

"Rest is sweet after strife."

"When life leaps in the veins, when it beats in the heart, When it thrills as it fills every animate part, Where lurks it? How works it?.. we scarcely detect it."

"Alas! must it be ever so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?"

"There's no weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aim'd) as praise."

"The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not."

"We gain Justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain."

"'Twas a hand White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland. The hand of a woman is often, in youth, Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless in truth; Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm, Or as sorrow has cross'd the life-line in its palm."

"We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man can not live without cooks. He may live without books,—what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope—what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,—what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?"

"In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate."

"We are what we must, And not what we would be. I know that one hour Forestalls not another. The will and the power Are diverse."