It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

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

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.