01c. 1797 ADHis [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid all Nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art.Robert Hall / quote ↗
02c. 1797 ADHe [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.Robert Hall / quote ↗
03c. 1797 ADCall things by their right names. . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.Robert Hall / quote ↗
04c. 1797 ADThink not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies to agitate and torment it. Their own frauds, their crimes, their remembrances of the past, their terrors of the future,—these are the domestic furies that are ever present to the mind of the impious.Robert Hall / quote ↗
05c. 1797 ADDistinguished merit will ever rise to oppression, and will draw lustre from reproach. The vapors which gather round the rising sun, and follow him in his course, seldom fail at the close of it to form a magnificent theatre for his reception, and to invest with variegated tints and with a softened effulgence the luminary which they cannot hide.Robert Hall / quote ↗
06c. 1797 ADTalent of the highest order, and such as is calculated to command admiration, may exist apart from wisdom.Robert Hall / quote ↗
07c. 1797 ADIn matters of conscience first thoughts are best, in matters of prudence last thoughts are best.Robert Hall / quote ↗
08c. 1797 ADEnthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm, that of individuals: the former grows inveterate by time, the latter is cured by it.Robert Hall / quote ↗
09c. 1797 ADThe prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.Robert Hall / quote ↗
10c. 1797 ADPrayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling.Robert Hall / quote ↗
11c. 1797 ADA friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.Robert Hall / quote ↗
