No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.