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

Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

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

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.