A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.

I always admired Mrs. Grote's saying that politics and theology were the only two really great subjects.

The classes and the masses.

Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

If you are cold, tea will warm you;
if you are too heated, it will cool you;
If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
If you are excited, it will calm you.