If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

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

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.