True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.