It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

History is clarified experience.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.