The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

Immitation is suicide.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

I am become a transparent eyeball.

The religions we call false were once true.