Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid.

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

There are male as well as female gossips.