Popularity is for dolls.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.