Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

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

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.