"Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes, And laugh, like parrots, at a bagpiper: And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable."

"When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast."

"You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch; therefore bear you the lantern."

"Why, now I see there's mettle in thee, and even from this instant do build on thee a better opinion than ever before."

"He hath a daily beauty in his life That makes me ugly."

"O do not slander him, for he is kind. Right; as snow in harvest."

"Now do I play the touch, To try if thou be current gold indeed."

"How this grace Speaks his own standing! what a mental power This eye shoots forth! How big imagination Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the gesture One might interpret."

"The trick of singularity."

"He wants wit that wants resolved will."

"His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; * * * * * * His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth."

"As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile."

"I'm called away by particular business. But I leave my character behind me."

"There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken."

"Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam engine in trousers."

"He [Macaulay] is like a book in breeches."

"A bold bad man!"

"Inerat tamen simplicitas ac liberalitas, quæ, nisi adsit modus in exitium vertuntur."

"In turbas et discordias pessimo euique plurima vis: pax et quies bonis artibus indigent."

"He makes no friend who never made a foe."

"Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character."

"The man that makes a character, makes foes."

"The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous effort and an honest aim, At once he draws the sting of life and death; He walks with nature and her paths are peace."

"They love, they hate, but cannot do without him."

"In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick; A metaphor taken—I have not the page aright— From an ethical work by the Stagyrite."

"Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche."

"Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise—the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. * * * There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things."

"Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete."

"Most men are bad."

"Une grande incapacité inconnue."

"I look upon you as a gem of the old rock."

"No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something."

"Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be a chippe of the same block out of which you two were cutte?"

"Are you a bromide?"

"All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities."

"He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself."

"From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild: They follow the beck of a baleful star, Their paths are dream-beguiled."

"With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth, His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth, And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth."

"Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage; Noble by heritage, Generous and free."

"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."

"We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad."

"It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments."

"It can be said of him, When he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time."

"He was a verray perfight gentil knight."

"The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an Earldom."

"Importunitas autem, et inhumanitas omni ætati molesta est."

"Ut ignis in aquam conjectus, continuo restinguitur et refrigeratur, sic refervens falsum crimen in purissimam et castissimam vitam collatum, statim concidit et extinguitur."

"What was said of Cinna might well be applied to him. He [Hampden] had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief."

"In numbers warmly pure, and sweetly strong."