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

The business of everybody is the business of nobody.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.