Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.