How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

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

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.