Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

What is not in nature can never be true.

The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.