Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

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.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.