Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.