The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.