This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

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

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

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

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