Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.