The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?