History begins in novel and ends in essay.
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.
The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.