if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.