There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.

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

Silence is sorrow's best food.

Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

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