1. As a composition the Declaration is Mr. Jefferson’s.—Webster.
2. There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.—Emerson.
3. Long before I had dealings with him, I knew him by the superb song, or rather incantation, with which he announced his coming on the Grand Canal.—Howells.
4. He made his Masque what it ought to be, essentially lyrical and dramatic only in semblance.—Macaulay.
5. Do I not remember the time when I myself haunted the station?—Stevenson.
6. Grandchild of Henri Quatre, niece of Louis XIII., cousin of Louis XIV., first princess of the blood, and with the largest income in the nation (500,000 livres) to support these dignities, Mademoiselle was certainly born in the purple.—Higginson.
7. Two kinds of men make good teachers—young men and men who never grow old.—C. W. Eliot.
8. Devils, thicker than tiles on housetops, scare him not from his work.—Motley.
9. Unostentatious illustrations of divine power, such as healing the sick, opening the eyes of the blind, or the ears of the deaf, were not enough.—Geikie.
10. Punctuality must be cultivated by all who would succeed in any calling, whether lofty or humble.