We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

Our moods do not believe in each other.

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.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.