Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.