It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

Boswell is the first of biographers.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.