I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.