Boswell is the first of biographers.

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.