All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

My hunger serves me instead of a clock.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.