If One Shed Tears, They Must Be

Chaos Was The Law Of Nature; Order Was The Dream Of Man.

As A Means Of Variation From A Normal Type, Sickness In Childhood Ought To Have A Certain Value Not To Be Classed Under Any Fitness Or Unfitness Of Natural Selection; And Especially Scarlet Fever Affected Boys Seriously, Both Physically And In Character, Though They Might Through Life Puzzle Themselves To Decide Whether It Had Fitted Or Unfitted Them For Success.

Politics, As A Practise, Whatever Its Professions, Has Always Been The Systematic Organization Of Hatreds.

From Earliest Childhood The Boy Was Accustomed To Feel That, For Him, Life Was Double. Winter And Summer, Town And Country, Law And Liberty, Were Hostile, And The Man Who Pretended They Were Not, Was In His Eyes A Schoolmaster -- That Is, A Man Employed To Tell Lies To Little Boys.

Charles Sumner's Mind Had Reached The Calm Of Water Which Receives And Reflects Images Without Absorbing Them; It Contains Nothing But Itself.