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

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

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.