The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.