Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

Conscience is the pulse of reason

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

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

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.