To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.