A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

- William Warburton

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from h…

- William Warburton

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had any…

- William Warburton

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

- William Warburton

Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately ou…

- William Warburton

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

- William Warburton

Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of…

- William Warburton

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

- William Warburton

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise…

- William Warburton