Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.