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

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.