Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.

Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.

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