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

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.