The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.