Live always in the best company when you read. - Sydney Smith

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

Truth is its [justice's] handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the Gospel; it is the greatest attribute of God.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigour it will give your style.