That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

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

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

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

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.