Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

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

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.