The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.