It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Language is the archives of history.

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.