The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

Boswell is the first of biographers.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.