The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.