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.

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

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

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

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.