The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.