Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.

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.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.