Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

London is a modern Babylon.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.