Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.

Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.

There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.