[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.