Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

A prudent consideration for Number One.