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

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

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

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.