News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

Little things affect little minds.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.