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

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.