Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.

Ambition has no rest.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.