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.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

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.

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.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

O reputation! dearer far than life.