The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.