My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the London shopkeeper had the best existence; his lordship, as usual, preferring the savage.

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

I regretted I was not the head of a clan; however, though not possessed of such an hereditary advantage, I would always endeavour to make my tenants follow me.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissanc…

McMahon up the street of Paris came, In triumph from Magenta. Every one Had heard and praised the fearless marshal's name, And gloried in the deeds that he had…