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

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.

The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

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.