I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.