Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

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

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

The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

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

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.