* * *

THOMAS B. MACAULAY.

_Edinburgh Review, Oct., 1840, on Ranke's History of the Popes_.

She (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigor,
when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast
solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the
ruins of St. Paul's.

* * * * *

JOHN RANDOLPH.
1773-1833.

_Speeches_, 1828.

A wise and masterly inactivity.

* * * * *

WASHINGTON IRVING.

_The Creole Village_.

The Almighty Dollar.

* * * * *

FRANCIS DUC DE ROCHEFOUCAULD.
1613-1680.

_Maxim ccxvii_.

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice
pays to virtue.

* * * * *

JOSEPH FOUCHE.
1763-1820.

It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder.

* * * * *

MISCELLANEOUS.

"_The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church_."

"Plures efficimur, quoties metimur a vobis; semen est sanguis
Christianorum." _Tertullian_ _Apologet_., c. 50.

* * * * *

"_Corporations have no souls_."

"They (Corporations) cannot commit trespass nor be outlawed nor
excommunicate, for they have no souls."--_Lord Coke's Reports_
Part x. p. 32.

* * * * *

"_A Rowland for an Oliver_."

"These were two of the most famous in the list of Charlemagne's twelve
peers; and their exploits are rendered so ridiculously and equally
extravagant by the old romancers that from thence arose that saying
among our plain and sensible ancestors of giving one a 'Rowland for his
Oliver,' to signify the matching one incredible lie with
another."--_Warburton_.

* * * * *

"It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in
their name to eat an oyster."--_Butler's Dyet's Dry Dinner_, 1599.

* * * * *

"_Hobson's Choice_."

"Tobias Hobson was the first man in England that let out hackney
horses.--When a man came for a horse he was led into the stable, where
there was a great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which
stood next to the stable door; so that every customer was alike well
served according to his chance, from whence it became a proverb when
what ought to be your election was forced upon you, to say 'Hobson