Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.