The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.