Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.