We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

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!

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

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

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

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.