Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

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

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.