Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.