It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

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.

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

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.