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

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

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.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

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

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.