When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.