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.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

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

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

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