"They who are in love with practice without theory are like the sailor who boards ship without rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast."

"It is a general error to imagine that those whom we call authors are the only writers. There is another class of writers, and a very numerous one, who are in the habit of writing without ever putting …"

"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

"Public calamity is a mighty leveller."