Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

All poetry should be the poetry of circumstance; that is, it should be inspired by the Real.

Intellect may enslave us, if we are predisposed to like it; but intellect cannot warm us, or inspire us with passion.

It is not given to the world to be moderate.

That which is wholesome nourishment for the people of one age may be poison for the people of another.

Amateurs and women, for the most part, have but the feeblest ideas of poetry.

My works are not written for the mass, but for men who, desiring and seeking that which I desired and sought, walk in the same road that I have pursued.

I will listen to any one's convictions; but, pray, keep your doubts to yourself.

Great passions are incurable diseases: the very remedies make them worse.

Our adversaries think they refute us when they reiterate their own opinions, without paying attention to ours.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

Man alone is interesting to man.

Following Pope's dictum, "Essay on Man," II. 1.

More light (Mehr Licht).

His last words.

"The prayer of Ajax was for light."

LONGFELLOW: The Goblet of Life.

As Napoleon closed his interview with Goethe at Erfurt, Oct. 2, 1808, he said, in presence of the poet, with whom he had conversed on literature, "You are a man!" (Vous êtes un homme!') and to Berthier and Daru, after Goethe had retired, “That is a man!" (Voilà un homme!) And Goethe said to Eckermann in 1828, "Napoleon was the man! His life was the stride of a demi-god. That was a fellow (Kerl) whom we cannot imitate."

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

[Poet and miscellaneous writer; born at Pallas, Ireland, 1728; educated at Trinity College; studied medicine, and made a tour of Europe; wrote "The Vicar of Wakefield," 1762; "The Traveller," 1764; "The Deserted Village," 1770; "She Stoops to Conquer," 1773; died 1774.]

I always get the better when I argue alone.

He was like the French Nicole, who was slow at repartee, and fatigued those who waited for the reasons by which he sustained his positions. He accordingly said of M. de Tréville, who spoke more fluently, "He vanquishes me in the drawing-room, but surrenders to me at discretion on the stairs" (Il me bat dans la chambre, mais il n'est pas plutôt au bas de l'escalier que je l'ai confondu). This is but another way of putting Disraeli's remark, that "many a great wit has thought the wit it was too late to speak." Rivarol paraphrases the French proverb, Tout le monde est sage après coup, "One could make a great book of what has not been said; " and Chief-Justice Jervis, in an opinion quoted by Baron Bramwell, 5 Jur. N. S. 658, gave it a more literal rendering: "Nothing is so easy as to be wise after the event."

That Goldsmith wrote better than he talked, gave point to Garrick's impromptu epitaph:

"Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,
Who wrote like an angel, and talked like poor Poll."

Johnson said of him, "Goldsmith was a plant that flowered late;" and again, in 1778, "Goldsmith was a man, who, whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do." In 1780 he declared of him: "No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." Johnson wrote in the Latin epitaph of the poet, that, "leaving hardly any style of composition untouched, he touched nothing that he did not adorn:"

"Qui nullum fere scribendi genus

Non tetigit,

Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit."

This may be compared to the remark of Fénelon in a eulogy of Cicero: "He touches nothing but he adds a charm."

Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis.

Goldsmith was not always caught napping. Thus Johnson was walking with him one day in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, and quoted Ovid's line:

"Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis."

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De Arte Amandi, III., 339.

Perhaps our name may be mingled with these."

On their way home they passed under Temple Bar; and Goldsmith, pointing to the heads of Fletcher and Townley, who had been executed for participation in the rebellion of 1745, slyly whispered, in reference to Johnson's Jacobite tendencies,

"Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis."

BOSWELL: Life of Johnson, 1773.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

Boswell states that Goldsmith struck this out of "The Vicar of Wakefield." Johnson added that he struck out another fine passage: "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over, for I generally found that what was new was false." Lessing began a critique in much the same way: "This book contains much that is good and new: pity that the good is not new, and the new is not good." Daniel Webster said in the Senate, March, 1848, of a political platform, "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."

I should rather that my play were damned by bad players, than merely saved by good acting.

Victor Hugo said, "I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one."

Boswell once endeavored to engage Goldsmith in a conversation on religion; to which the latter replied, "Sir, as I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest." When Boswell regretted to Johnson that loose way of talking, the latter replied, "Sir, he knows nothing; he has made up his mind about nothing."- BOSWELL: Life of Johnson, 1773.

GORTSCHAKOFF.

[Prince Alexander Gortschakoff, a Russian statesman; born 1798; secretary of legation to London, 1824; councillor of the embassy, and minister to Vienna, 1832; minister of foreign affairs and chancellor of the empire, 1857; took part in the Black Sea Conference in London, 1871, and in the Berlin Congress, 1878; resigned the direction of foreign affairs, 1882.]

Russia is not sulking, she is collecting herself (La Russie ne boude pas, elle se recueille).

This celebrated expression occurred in a circular to the Russian legations in Europe in 1856, in which the chancellor op posed the interference of the Western Powers in the internal affairs of the Two Sicilies, but disclaimed any such opposition to intervention, on Russia's part, as the result of mortification at her defeat by England and France. It marked, even in this negative way, the re-appearance of Russia in European politics after the Crimean war, from the effects of which she was "collecting herself."

Gortschakoff's acquaintance with Austria and her heterogeneous people caused him to say, what was perhaps more accurate thirty years ago than now: "Austria is not a state, she is only a government." This resembles Metternich's celebrated mot, when the peninsula was a congeries of often antagonistic principalities, "Italy is only a geographical expression."

ULYSSES S. GRANT.

[Born in Ohio, April 27, 1822; graduated from West Point, 1843; served in the Mexican War; entered the War of the Rebellion as colonel of volunteers; took Forts Henry and Donelson, 1862; captured Vicksburg, July 4, 1863; made major-general and lieutenantgeneral in the regular army, and commander of all the forces of the United States, March, 1864; captured Petersburg, April 2, 1865, and received Lee's surrender, April 9; secretary of war ad interim, 1867; President of the United States, 1869-77; after his retirement made a tour of the world.]

I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Having been appointed to the command of South-east Missouri, and all that part of Kentucky west of the Cumberland River,

Gen. Grant ascended the Tennessee River with the aid of gunboats, and took Fort Henry, Feb. 6, 1862; he then attacked Fort Donelson, by which the navigation of the Cumberland was obstructed. On the 16th Gen. Buckner made overtures, in reply to which Grant wrote: "No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." The fort was accordingly surrendered to him with more than fifteen thousand prisoners.

The next of the pithy sayings of the general was uttered on the 11th of May, 1864. While fighting and manoeuvring before Richmond, he concluded a despatch to the Secretary of War with a sentence which was at once taken up, and made the motto of the campaign: "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer."

Let us have peace!

Neither accepting the policy of President Johnson, nor desiring unharmonious action between the re-united sections of the country, Grant closed his letter accepting the nomination to the presidency, May 29, 1868, with an exclamation which became at once a watchword, "Let us have peace!"

In his first inaugural address, March 4, 1869, referring to the attempt of his predecessor to carry out a policy in opposition to the views of the dominant party, President Grant announced as his view of the relations which should exist between the executive and legislative branches of the government: "I shall on all subjects have a policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the people."

Let no guilty man escape.

To correct an impression that the President and Secretary of the Treasury were not in full accord in the efforts made by the latter to bring to justice all who were engaged in the violation of the internal-revenue laws in relation to the tax on distilled spirits (in other words, the Western "Whiskey Ring"), President Grant made the following autographic indorsement of a letter relating to the prosecution, July 29, 1875: "Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty."