If happiness means absence of care and inexperience of painful emotion, the best securities for it are a hard heart and a good digestion.

If morality has no better foundation than a tendency to promote happiness, its sanction is but a feeble uncertainty." Remembering where he stood, and speaking from the fulness of his mind, Froude exclaimed: "Norman Leslie did not kill Cardinal Beaton down in the castle yonder because he was a Catholic, but because he was a murderer.

The Catholics chose to add to their already incredible creed a fresh article, that they were entitled to hang and burn those who differed from them; and in this quarrel the Calvinists, Bible in hand, appealed to the God of battles." The importance of this striking Address is largely due to the fact that it was composed immediately after the History had been finished, and may be regarded as an epilogue.

It breathes the spirit, though it discards the trappings, of Puritanism and the Reformation.

Luther "was one of the grandest men that ever lived on earth.