Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

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

Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.