True Invective Requires Great Imagination.

Good Taste Consists First Upon Fitness.

For Nature Makes Women To Be Won, And Men To Win.

A Man's Country Is Not A Certain Area Of Land, Of Mountains, Rivers, And Woods, But It Is A Principle: And Patriotism Is Loyalty To That Principle. In Poetic Minds And In Popular Enthusiasm This Feeling Becomes Closely Associated With The Soil And The Symbols Of The Country. But The Secret Sanctification Of The Soil And The Symbol Is The Idea Which They Represent, And This Idea The Patriot Worships Through The Name And The Symbol, As A Lover Kisses With Rapture The Glove Of His Mistress And Wears A Lock Of Her Hair Upon His Heart.

The Test Of Civilization Is The Estimate Of Woman. Among Savages She Is A Slave. In The Dark Ages Of Christianity She Is A Toy And A Sentimental Goddess. With Increasing Moral Light, And Greater Liberty, And More Universal Justice, She Begins To Develop As An Equal Human Being.

It Is Not Observed In History That Families Improve With Time.