A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

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

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.