England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.