People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.