Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.