The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

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

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

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!