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

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.