He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.