When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.

Language is the archives of history.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.