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

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.