Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.

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

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.

Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.

The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.