The Ascendency Of The Sacerdotal Order Was

It Has Often Been Found That Profuse Expenditures, Heavy Taxation, Absurd Commercial Restrictions, Corrupt Tribunals, Disastrous Wars, Seditions, Persecutions, Conflagrations, Inundation, Have Not Been Able To Destroy Capital So Fast As The Exertions Of Private Citizens Have Been Able To Create It.

Politeness Has Been Well Defined As Benevolence In Small Things.

From The Poetry Of Lord Byron They Drew A System Of Ethics Compounded Of Misanthropy And Voluptuousness,-a System In Which The Two Great Commandments Were To Hate Your Neighbour And To Love Your Neighbour's Wife.

The Passages In Which Milton Has Alluded To His Own Circumstances Are Perhaps Read More Frequently, And With More Interest, Than Any Other Lines In His Poems.

Books Are Becoming Everything To Me. If I Had At This Moment Any Choice In Life, I Would Bury Myself In One Of Those Immense Libraries...and Never Pass A Waking Hour Without A Book Before Me.