A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.