An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.

The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.