We die of too much life.
Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.
This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.