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

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"