The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.