Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.