The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.