What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.

In the one branch he most needed

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.