Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.