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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.

History: A distillation of rumor.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." - Thomas Carlyle,

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.