Robert Hall

He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.

Disciplined inaction.

His [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid all Nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art.

Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

The wheels of nature are not meant to roll backward; everything presses on toward Eternity-from the birth of Time, an impetuous current has set in which bears all the sons of men toward that interminable ocean.