It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

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

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

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

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.