Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.

They [the Nabobs] raised the price of everything in their neighbourhood, from fresh eggs to rotten boroughs.

And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods

Thank you, madam, the agony is abated.

'aged 4, having hot coffee spilt over his legs