He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.