The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

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

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

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

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

Everybody's business is nobody's business.