Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.