By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.