For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.