A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

There is a realm where the rainbow never fades

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.