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

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

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

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.