But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.