Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.