There Was A Time When The World

Which Is More Misshapen,--religion Without Virtue, Or Virtue Without Religion?

Religion Is The Only Metaphysic That The Multitude Can Understand And Adopt.

The Voice Is A Human Sound Which Nothing Inanimate Can Perfectly Imitate. It Has An Authority And An Insinuating Property Which Writing Lacks. It Is Not Merely So Much Air, But Air Modulated And Impregnated With Life.

We May Convince Others By Our Arguements, But We Can Only Persuade Them By Their Own

I Would Fain Coin Wisdom,—mould It, I Mean, Into Maxims, Proverbs, Sentences, That Can Easily Be Retained And Transmitted. Would That I Could Denounce And Banish From The Language Of Men—as Base Money—the Words By Which They Cheat And Are Cheated!