Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.
The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.