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

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

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