The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

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