We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.