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

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.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.