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

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

Father Mapple paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.