The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.