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.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

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

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.