It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.