Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.

I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty.

The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.