What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.