One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.