The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.