I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

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

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.