The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.