The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.