The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.