Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

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.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?