The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.

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.

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

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