The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

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.

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

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

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.