A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.