Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

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

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.