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

It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!