North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

History is the zoology of the human race.