The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter