In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

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

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!