We hardly know any instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking, and so grotesque, as the character of this haughty, vigilant, r… - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

I have been deep in Plato, Aristotle, and Theocritus ever since I left home, and admiring more and more every day the powers of that mighty language which is incomparably the best vehicle both for reasoning and for imagery that mankind have ever discovered, and which is richer both in abstract philosophical terms and poetical expressions than the English, French, and Latin tongues put together.

Nine-tenths the calamities of the human race are due to the union of high intelligence with low desires.

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.