Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.