I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

Boswell is the first of biographers.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

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

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

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