But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn