This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

Towering genius distains a beaten path.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.