Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.
Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Life in us is like the water in a river.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.