It is only when the rich are sick, that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

It is an easy and a vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them, but, essentially, to benefit and to improve them is a work fraug…

King James held convocation at Perth and demanded of the Scotch barons that they should produce the charters by which they held their lands; they all with one …

In politics, as in religion, it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed than for those who deny the whole of it.