Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

Boswell is the first of biographers.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.