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| The English Bible / a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. |
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| The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. |
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| The history of England is emphatically the history of progress. |
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| The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoner. |
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| The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. |
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| The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. |
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| The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators |
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| The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave. |
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| The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it is worth. |
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| The Romans were like brothers / In the brave days of old. |
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| The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night. |
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| The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve |
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| Then none was for a party; / Then all were for the state; / Then the great man helped the poor. / And the poor man loved the great. |
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| There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that is freedom. |
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| These be the great Twin Brethren / To whom the Dorians pray. |
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| This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant |
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| Thus our democracy was, from an early period, the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic in the world. |
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| We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money. |
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| We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality |
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