I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away..

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died..

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies..

How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises ….