The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.