I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.