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

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.