Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.