"The people are a set of masters whom it is not in a man's power in every instance fully to please, and at the same time faithfully to serve. He that is resolved to persevere without deviation in the line of truth and utility must have learnt to prefer the still whisper of enduring approbation, to the short-lived bustle of tumultuous applause."—Bentham.
"Plain law and plain sense."—Id.
"Could the wand of that magician be borrowed, at whose potent touch the emissaries of his wicked antagonist threw off their several disguises, and made instant confession of their real character and design,—could a few of those ravens by whom the word innovation is uttered with a scream of horror, and the approach of the monster denounced, be touched with it,—we should then learn their real character, and have the true import of these screams translated into intelligible language."—Id.
"Buller. Whom you crucify, like a very Czar of Muscovey!
North. No, sir, I only bang them up to air like so many pieces of old theatrical finery on the poles of Monmouth Street."—North.
"It cannot be that you have acted wrong in encountering danger for the liberty and safety of all Greece. No: by the generous souls who were exposed at Marathon; by those who stood arrayed at Platæa; by those who encountered the Persian fleet of Salamis—who fought at Artemisium; by all those illustrious sons of Athens whose remains lie deposited in the public monuments."—Demosthenes.
"When all the principal joists of a building have started, and all its stays and fastenings, from the roof to the foundation , have become loose, then will the first storm of accident easily demolish the whole structure, or the first spark set the dry and rotten edifice in flames."—Schlegel.
"What would you do in my position? Would you drop the war where it is, or would you prosecute it in future with elder-stalk squirts charged with rose-water? Would you deal lighter blows than heavier ones? Would you give up the contest leaving every available means unapplied?"—Lincoln.
"Satire is the right hand of burlesque."—Voltaire.
"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away."—Byron.
