Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.
Boswell is the first of biographers.
A dominant religion is never ascetic.
The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!