They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

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

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.