A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

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

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.