There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.