That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

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.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.