It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

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.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.