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

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

Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.

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

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.