No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

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