England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

We are taught words, not ideas.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

Small things affects small minds.

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.