Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."