The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.