It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.