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

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of