1. “Language is the machine of the poet.”
2. “Reform, that we preserve.”
3. “Power safely defied, touches its downfall.”
4. “History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.”
5. “No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.”
6. “A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false .”
7. “The business of everybody is the business of nobody.”
8. “The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.”
9. “A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.”
10. “Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his belief to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.”
11. “A good constitution is better than the best despot.”
12. “Half knowledge is worse than ignorance.”
13. “Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.”
14. “I don’t mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.”
15. “The hearts of men are their boo; events are their tutors; great action are their eloquence.”
16. “It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.”
17. “Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.”
18. “The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever t make men good reasoners.”
19. “Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.”
20. “The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.”
21. “Inevery age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.”
22. “The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.”
23. “The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and reflect the dawn.”
24. “A dominant religion is never ascetic.”
25. “Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.”
26. “Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.”
27. “Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.”
28. “It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.”
29. “More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.”
30. “Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.”
