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

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.

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

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.