Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

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.

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

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.