I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?