There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.