A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

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

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.