There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.