~Reproach.~--Few love to hear the sins they love to act.--_Shakespeare._
The silent upbraiding of the eye is the very poetry of reproach; it
speaks at once to the imagination.--_Mrs. Balfour._
~Republic.~--Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am
afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a
republic last century and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate
political experiments.--_Walpole._
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion, might be
adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its
ministers."--_Heinrich Heine._