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

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.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

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

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.