Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.