Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

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.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.