religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

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

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.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?