The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.