Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.