The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.