All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part of dupes.

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain- tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is hqr knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of- clothes to suit-of-clothes.

Of representative assemblies may not this good be said: That contending parties in a country do thereby ascertain one another’s strength? They fight there, since fight they must, by petition, parliamentary eloquence, not by sword, bayonet and bursts of military cannon-.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

How inexpressibly comfortable to know our fellow- creature; to see into him, understand his goings - forth, decipher the whole heart of his mystery: nay, not only to see into him, but even to see out of him, to view the world altogether as he views it.

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?