It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.

It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.