Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.