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

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

If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.