Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

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

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

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

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.