The end of government is the happiness of the people.

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

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.

The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

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.