The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a capitation tax, if this enrolment also involved taxation. But, apart from any legal necessity, it may easily be imagined that at such a moment Mary would desire not to be left alone. The cruel suspicion of which she had been the subject, and which had almost led to the breaking off of her betrothal (Matt. 1: 19) would make her cling all the more to the protection of her husband.

If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.