The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.