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

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.