There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.