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.

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

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!

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.