"But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will flu…"

"It is our deliberate opinion that the French Revolution, in spite of all its crimes and follies, was a great blessing…"

"He William Temple] was merely a man of lively parts and quick observation,—a man of the world amongst men of letters,…"

"The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to …"

"'It is scarcely possible to calculate the benefits which we might derive from the diffusion of European civilisation …"

"It may be that the public mind of India may expand under our system till it has outgrown that system; that by good go…"

"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnif…"

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

"A life of action, if it is to be useful, must be a life of compromise. But speculation admits of no compromise. A pub…"

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