The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

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

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.