A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.