Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

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

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.