We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins.

The things we call aristocracies and reigning houses are the last places to look for masterful men. They began strongly, but they have been too long in possess…

The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the world. God never allows…

We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural…

I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these.

He moved away to the next picture. It was of a man with a fat smiley face and a red ribbon round him and a lot of medals. My great uncle Ambrose Fudge said Ber…

How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever t…