Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
Never take anything for granted.
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.