Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other.
During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.