Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

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

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.