There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.