History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

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

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.