No other such judge has dishonoured the English ermine, since Jeffreys drank himself to death in the Tower. - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

That wonderful book <nowiki>[</nowiki>The Pilgrim's Progress<nowiki>]</nowiki>, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

A man who has never been within the tropics does not know what a thunderstorm means; a man who has never looked on Niagara has but a faint idea of a cataract; and he who has not read Barère's Memoirs may be said not to know what it is to lie.

Lars Porsena of Closium
By the Nine Gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrong no more.
By the Nine Gods he swore it,
And named a trysting day,
And bade his messengers ride forth,
East and west and south and north,
To summon his array.