We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

We change whether we like it or not.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.