Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.

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

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

My voice is still for war.

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.