An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.

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

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

Language is the machine of the poet.