I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Can man be free if woman be a slave?

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

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

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.