Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
Category Archive: 1865
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.