Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.