George F. Hoar: “He espoused the unpopular side when he started in life, and he stuck to it through all its unpopularity.”

We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.

To go fully into the role of the number three in British traditions would require a profound study; but it may be useful briefly to note its influence on the Bardic poetry-- the Triads, where the subjects are all grouped in threes.

It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.

We are here in the sweet silence of a summer morning, eighteen hundred years after such a scene, and able mentally to catch some glimpse of it; some echo of the storm that has left behind it so ineffaceable a mark.