He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

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. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?