"The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged."

"But man, being, as I have said, essentially an active being, he must find in activity his joy, as well as his duty an…"

"The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics."

"Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit."

"A Thought embodied and embrained in fit words, walks the earth a living being."

"Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning."

"The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the bra…"

"The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram."

"Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment."

"Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention'"