What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

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.

We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.