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

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.