The very greatest writers write best when calm, and exerting themselves upon subjects unconnected with party. Burke rarely shows all his powers, unless where he is in a passion. The French Revolution was alone a subject fit for him. We are not yet aware of all the consequences of that event. We are too near it.
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Goldsmith did every thing happily.
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You abuse snuff! Perhaps it is the final cause of the human nose.
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A rogue is a roundabout fool; a fool in circumbendibus.
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Omne ignotum pro magnifico. A dunghill at a distance sometimes smells like musk, and a dead dog like elder-flowers.
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