Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

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

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.