All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

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

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.