When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.

It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?