The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among Englishmen and Americans to-day. It is not every truth that recommends itself to the common sense. Nature has a place for the wild clematis as well as for the cabbage. Some expressions of truth are reminiscent,--others merely sensible, as the phrase is,--others prophetic.

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.