Reform, that we may preserve.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

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

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.

Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.