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.

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

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

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.