The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.