Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

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

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.