Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

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

There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.