The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the literary sort. This species of "fame" a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.

The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.