Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

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.

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.