We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

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

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

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

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.