The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.

A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.

...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.