Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred learning, their great statesmen and soldiers, their natural philosophers, their historians and their poets.

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.