History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.