The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.