Boswell is the first of biographers.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.