There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

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.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.