Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

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

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.