What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

In the motive lies the good or ill.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.