The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.