Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

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

The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.