I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

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

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

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.