The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

The end of government is the happiness of the people.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.