If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.