The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.