Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred learning, their great statesmen and soldiers, their natural philosophers, their historians and their poets.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.