The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

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.

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

Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

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.

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.