It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

My soul is not a palace of the past.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.