Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is not told. Why do they still dodge the truth? They are so anxious because of a dim consciousness of the fact, which they do not distinctly face, that at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise the tactics.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth