The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.