Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

History is the distillation of rumour.

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.