Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.