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.

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

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

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