A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.