Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.