The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.