At Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh has another post on the challenges of reading eighteenth-century language, in this case James Madison (supposed) quote form Federalist 51: "What is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections of human nature?"
Actually, as Professor Volokh points out, the quote is "What is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?" — and that likely meant something different from what it appears to mean to the modern ear.
Posted at 6:30 AM