The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

Travel is a fools paradise.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.