The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.