Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.
Boswell is the first of biographers.
With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.
Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.
Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.