I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus la… - Achille Vicart

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Manfred was not one of those savage tyrants who wanton in cruelty unprovoked. The circumstances of his fortune had given an asperity to his temper, which was naturally humane; and his virtues were always ready to operate, when his passions did not obscure his reason.

Mr. Hollis is always publishing republican books, and yet professes great veneration for our constitution. I cannot reconcile this; our constitution being, in its leading part, an oligarchy, the form, perhaps, of all others, the most opposite to a republic.

The whole nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.