Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

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.