We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.