For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.