A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.