All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.