No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.