A man who has never looked on Niagra has but a faint idea of a cataract; and he who has not read Barere's Memoirs may be said not to know what it is to lie.

He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

There you [Sir Robert Peel] sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.