Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

Difficulties melt away under tact.

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.