Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.