Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,--the every-day life of each particular time and country.

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.