Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.

I am my nearest neighbour.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.