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.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.