Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.