The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

Personality is lower than partiality.