Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.