Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Many make the household but only one the home.

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.