Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Real action is in silent moments.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.