No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.