And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own.

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.