Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

Civilization depends on morality.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.