We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.
The business of everybody is the business of nobody.
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.
He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.