Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

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

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

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.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.