Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.