Reform, that we may preserve.

A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows.