Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

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

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.