This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.