We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. - John Robert Seeley

No man saw the building of the new Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.

The chief forces which hold a community together and cause it to constitute one State are three, common nationality, common religion, and common interest.

John the Baptist was like the Emperor Nerva. In his career it was given him to do two things—to inaugurate a new régime, and also to nominate a successor who was far greater than himself.