Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.