The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

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

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

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