A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.