The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer; for if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to be denied all title or character in the other.

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.