There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

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

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

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