We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.