Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.

The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.