In rising sighs and falling tears.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

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 first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.