She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

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

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred learning, their great statesmen and soldiers, their natural philosophers, their historians and their poets.