The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!