Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.