The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

Men hate more steadily than they love.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.