Who said “The English Bible -- a book which, if everything else in our language should perish,…”?

“The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.”

“For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?”

“Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in it -- although I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.”

“People cannot be well educated without the Bible.”

“The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.”

“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!”

“The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”