The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

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

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.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

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.