In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

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.

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

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.

We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

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