Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.