Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

New occasions teach new duties.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.