Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

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.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

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!

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.