Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

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

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Reform, that we may preserve.

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.