T is often harder to praise a friend than an enemy.

W. Hazlitt, Characteristics.

ON A CERTAIN PARSON.

Y purchase a man's property is known:
Scarf's sermons and his livings are his own.

Epigrams in Distich (1740).

MEASURE men's dullness by the devices they trust in for deceiving others. Your dullest animal is he who grins and says he doesn't mind just after he has had his shins kicked.

Machiavelli, in George Eliot's Romola.

GRAMMATICAL.