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

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

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 unfortunate are always egotistical.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.