It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.