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.

Language is the machine of the poet.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.