To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

Reform, that we may preserve.