We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all time, he never once glances at the subject.... Comparatively, he is always strong, original, and, above all, practical. Still, his quality is not wisdom, but prudence.

Music is the crystallization of sound.