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

The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

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

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

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