Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.