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

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

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

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.