The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.

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.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.