I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

This world is a comedy, not Life.

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.