Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.