Literature, Like Nobility, Runs In The Blood.

If Mankind Had Wished For What Is Right, They Might Have Had It Long Ago.

A Man's Reputation Is Not In His Own Keeping, But Lies At The Mercy Of The Profligacy Of Others. Calumny Requires No Proof.

We Prefer Ourselves To Others, Only Because We A Have More Intimate Consciousness And Confirmed Opinion Of Our Own Claims And Merits Than Of Any Other Person's.

Those Only Deserve A Monument Who Do Not Need One; That Is, Who Have Raised Themselves A Monument In The Minds And Memories Of Men.

He Who Would See Old Hoghton Right Must View It By The Pale Moonlight.