Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.