A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.