The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.