I would rather be defeated than make capital out of my religion.
VIII.
Things don’t turn up in this world unless somebody turns them up.
IX.
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and its valleys are its soil, its spirit, and its life.
X.
The privilege of being a young man is a great privilege, and the privilege of growing to be an independent man, in middle life, is a greater.
It is a strange fancy of mine, but I cannot help wishing we could move for returns—as their phrase is in parliament—for the suffering caused in any one day, or other period of time, throughout the world, to be arranged under certain heads; and we should then see what the world has occasion to fear most. What a large amount would come under the heads of unreasonable fear of others, of miserable quarrels amongst relations upon infinitesimally small subjects, of imaginary slights, of undue cares, of false shames, of absolute misunderstandings, of unnecessary pains to maintain credit or reputation, of vexation that we cannot make others of the same mind with ourselves! What a wonderful thing it would be to see set down in figures, as it were, how ingenious we are in plaguing one another!—Arthur Helps.