A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

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.

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.