There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

Everything in this world depends upon will.

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.