A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.