The English Nation Is Never So Great

Popular Privileges Are Consistent With A State Of Society In Which There Is Great Inequality Of Position. Democratic Rights, On The Contrary, Demand That There Should Be Equality Of Condition As The Fundamental Basis Of The Society They Regulate.

More Pernicious Nonsense Was Never Devised By Man Than Treaties Of Commerce.

The Originality Of A Subject Is In Its Treatment.

Taste, When Once Obtained, May Be Said To Be No Acquiring Faculty, And Must Remain Stationary; But Knowledge Is Of Perpetual Growth And Has Infinite Demands. Taste, Like An Artificial Canal, Winds Through A Beautiful Country, But Its Borders Are Confined And Its Term Is Limited. Knowledge Navigates The Ocean, And Is Perpetually On Voyages Of Discovery.

The Feeling Of Satiety, Almost Inseparable From Large Possessions, Is A Surer Cause Of Misery Than Ungratified Desires.