Great towers take time to construct.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered be a cause not partisan.

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.