And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.