She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

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

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

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