Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.