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

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

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