Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.