It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.