Our Judgment Ripens; Our Imagination Decays. We

And To Say That Society Ought To Be Governed By The Opinion Of The Wisest And Best, Though True, Is Useless. Whose Opinion Is To Decide Who Are The Wisest And Best?

The Maxim, That Governments Ought To Train The People In The Way In Which They Should Go, Sounds Well. But Is There Any Reason For Believing That A Government Is More Likely To Lead The People In The Right Way Than The People To Fall Into The Right Way Of Themselves?

A Grecian History, Perfectly Written Should Be A Complete Record Of The Rise And Progress Of Poetry, Philosophy, And The Arts.

He [charles Ii] Was Utterly Without Ambition. He Detested Business, And Would Sooner Have Abdicated His Crown Than Have Undergone The Trouble Of Really Directing The Administration.

Byron Owed The Vast Influence Which He Exercised Over His Contemporaries At Least As Much To His Gloomy Egotism As To The Real Power Of His Poetry.