It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.