Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

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.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.