The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

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

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.