In The Faculty Of Writing Nonsense, Stupidity

Under A Presidential Government, A Nation Has, Except At The Electing Moment, No Influence; It Has Not The Ballot-box Before It; Its Virtue Is Gone, And It Must Wait Till Its Instant Of Despotism Again Returns.

The Best Reason Why Monarchy Is A Strong Government Is, That It Is An Intelligible Government. The Mass Of Mankind Understand It, And They Hardly Anywhere In The World Understand Any Other.

But Of All Nations In The World The English Are Perhaps The Least A Nation Of Pure Philosophers.

No Man Has Come So Near Our Definition Of A Constitutional Statesman - The Powers Of A First-rate Man And The Creed Of A Second-rate Man.

Nine Tenths Of Modern Science Is In This Respect The Same: It Is The Produce Of Men Whom Their Contemporaries Thought Dreamers - Who Were Laughed At For Caring For What Did Not Concern Them - Who, As The Proverb Went, 'walked Into A Well From Looking At The Stars' - Who Were Believed To Be Useless, If Anyone Could Be Such.