Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.