Then, there was Webster, of the same age with Calhoun, though as yet only five years in public service; the most majestic personality which America has ever produced, though born of the hardy yeomanry of New England; profound in thought, grandly eloquent in speech, and royally impressive in bearing; full of good cheer, in spite of the puritanism of his ancestry, enjoying his friends and adored by his friends; a splendid lawyer, a great statesman, and an incomparable orator—in a word, a demigod; by no means so austere in character as in appearance; liable, as genius too often is, to sometimes break over the restraints of customary morality, but doing it in so grand and natural a manner as to make the rule which he had broken seem narrow, insignificant, and mean.
— from The Middle Period, 1817-1858 by John William Burgess

If we have not crests surmounted with coronets, nor three hundred years of nobility"-- "Enough, I say!
— from The Jew by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

My dear Brother , Nothing more has passed on the subject , but a day or two will now probably bring it to a point, as Dundas is to see him , and put the question to him, yes or no, either to-morrow or Thursday.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of