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

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

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.

Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.