The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

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