Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.