Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

All history was at first oral.

In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At this time the task of the news-writer is easy; they have nothing to do but to tell that a battle is expected, and afterwards that a battle has been fought, in which we and our friends, whether conquering or conquered, did all, and our enemies did nothing.

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.