Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

Laws die, books never.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.