The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

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.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!