I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

There are male as well as female gossips.

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.

Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.