I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Reform, that we may preserve.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.