There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

Today is a king in disguise.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.