Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.