The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?