He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.

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.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

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