Better Freedom With A Crust, Than Slavery

Genius Makes Its Observations In Short-hand; Talent Writes Them Out At Length.

The Grandest Of All Laws Is The Law Of Progressive Development. Under It, In The Wide Sweep Of Things, Men Grow Wiser As They Grow Older, And Societies Better.

Too Much Society Makes A Man Frivolous; Too Little, A Savage.

No Work Deserves To Be Criticized That Has Not Much In It That Deserves To Be Applauded.

A Profusion Of Fancies And Quotations Is Out Of Place In A Love-letter. True Feeling Is Always Direct, And Never Deviates Into By-ways To Cull Flowers Of Rhetoric.