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

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.