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

There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.

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

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

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

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.