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

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

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.

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.

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

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.