The Object Of Oratory Alone In Not

It May Be Laid As An Universal Rule That A Government Which Attempts More Than It Ought Will Perform Less.

The Merit Of Poetry, In Its Wildest Forms, Still Consists In Its Truth-truth Conveyed To The Understanding, Not Directly By The Words, But Circuitously By Means Of Imaginative Associations, Which Serve As Its Conductors.

The Orientals Have Another Word For Accident; It Is "kismet,"--fate.

The Knowledge Of The Theory Of Logic Has No Tendency Whatever To Make Men Good Reasoners.

There Was, It Is Said, A Criminal In Italy Who Was Suffered To Make His Choice Between Guicciardini And The Galleys. He Chose The History. But The War Of Pisa Was Too Much For Him; He Changed His Mind, And Went To The Oars.