Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

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

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.

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.