I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.