That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.