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.

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

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.

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.

A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.