But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.