How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

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

It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.

The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

Boswell is the first of biographers.

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.