Poet

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

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.

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

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

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.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.