Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.