How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

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

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.