To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.