The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.

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

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.