Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.