And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Reform, that we may preserve.
We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.
In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.