If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

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.