Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

The march of the human mind is slow.

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.