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

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

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

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

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

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