The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.