The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

We are all human, and all do wrong.

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.