we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.