Who said “The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it…”?

“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.”

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”

“The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.”

“Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.”

“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”

“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”

“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”

“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”

“There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen.”