Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.