A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.