Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.