The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

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!

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.