Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

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

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.

The end of government is the happiness of the people.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.