For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!