We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.