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.
Thomas B. Macaulay
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
revolution nations
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
talent
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
sound
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
rights
The dust and silence of the upper shelf.
silence
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
honor
birth accident
She may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
ruins solitude
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
gentlemen
That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.
admiration
Lars Porsena of Closium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
wrongs
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
persecution
Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons.
spoon
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