Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

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

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.