Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.