This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.

Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.

There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great and noble. They possessed a natural majesty that was not put on and taken off at pleasure, as was that of certain eastern monarchs when they put on or took off their garments of Tyrian dye. It is hoped that this is not wholly lost from the world, although the sense of earthly vanity inculcated by Christianity may have swallowed it up in humility.