Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

I am then never less alone than when alone

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.