When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

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

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.