None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
