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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.
The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.
In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.
We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.
Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrongs no more.
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.
No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.