If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.