The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.