He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

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

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

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.