If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.